, 1887-08-02
RECAPTURED.
Patterson, the Murderer of McLe-
hone, Again in Custody.
Deputy Sheriff SmaIley Secured
Him at Great Falls, Mont.
A History of the Murder With
Which Patterson is Charged.

"
Which Patterson is Charged.
Ben Smalley, deputy sheriff of Laramie
county returned from Great Falls,
Mont, Yesterday morning having in
custody Harry Patterson, who was in
dicted June 10, 1885, for the murder of a
man supposed to be Jas. McLehone, alias
Tin Hat" whose decomposed body was
accidentally found in Whaleu canyon Dec.
L, 1884. The killing is believed to have
been done sometime in July, of the same
year.
Patterson was detected by Chas. V.
Trumble, now under sentence of death
for the murder of Chas. Miley at Lusk
last winter, and arrested while visiting a
round up near Hat Creek by Thos. Car
roll, of Fort Laramie who acted in the
capacity of deputy in that section during
the administration of Sheriff Craig.
Carroll started for Cheyenne with Pat
terson, who through gross carelessness
was allowed to escape while the officer
was eating supper at R. Thorp's ranch at
Rawhide Buttes. The pair sat at the
same table and when Patterson finished
horse and left. Carroll appeared soon
after and inquired for the criminal. Mr..
Thorp said: "He Just went down the road
on horseback, who was he?" 81 am
,ou-. ~, 100 ~ I'D Nau.an Ggloi, n
murderer and l was taking him to Chey-
enne." 1t is said that Patterson hast
ened to the o w ranch, was given a
fresh horse and directed the best road out
of the country. Be that as it may, Mr..
Patterson was not again seen in this
county until Yesterday.
THE CRIME.
The indictment against Patterson con-
sists of six counts, each separately alleg-
ing that he did %wilfully, maliciously and
premeditatedly shoot and kill a man to
the jury unknown" That this mar was
McLehone, alias Tin Hat there can be
no doubt. A friendship had sprung up
between the two at Lusk, then called
R~unningwater. McLehone was a gambler
and was known to have about $3.50 in
money. Patterson was a cowboy and his
earthly possessions consisted of a horse
and some bedclothing. Business becom-
ing quiet at ~Runningwater, Tin Hat pro-
posed hat they emigrate to Buffalo,
johnson county; that they strike across
the country and ride the pony alternately.
This was readily agreed to by Patterson,
who was unable to secure employment in
Laramie county on account Of his severe
treatment of the horses allotted TO him.
On the second day after leaving Running,
water they entered the secluded precincts
of Muskrat canyon, and it was here that
Patterson murdered his unfortunate com
panion and gained possession OF the $3.50,
after which he concealed Tin Hats cloth
ing and buried his victim in the bed of a
dry creek, loading the remains down with
stones. Chas. Trumble, who was then
employed as %watcbman by the Great
Wyoming Mining company al Running
water, had observed Patterson and Nc,
Lehone leave the place, the former riding
while Tin Hat walked by his side. When
he saw Patterson return alone and with
considerable money, he suspected that the
cowboy had robbed and perhaps murdered
his companion, and it was upon informa-
ton furnished by Trumble that Patterson
was arrested by Thos. Carroll.
THE INQUEST.
Coroner John 7. Chafin and a jury, OF
which Henry Chase was foreman, inves,
tigated the causes which led to the death
of the murdered man, but with immater.
ial results, their verdict being to the effect
that IAN unknown man had been muir.
dered by a person to the Jury unknown
At that time nearly everyone supposed
the remains to be the corpse Of the miss,
ing son OF A. ID. Gambell, who reap.
peared in Cheyenne and greeted his
father after a mysterious absence of oveI
a year. At the inquest John Murphy
testified to finding the hat, clothes, and
afterward the body of a murdered mar
in Whalen canyon; that the remains were
badly decomposed, and that to the best
of his knowledge and belief the man haG
first been shot through the back from ar
elevation, and while PROSTATE had re
ceived two shots through the head. A
D. Gambell corroborated the evidence o
Murphy as to the decomposed condition
Of the remains and the manner in which
the man had been killed, and stated tina
portions of the corpse had been eater
away by coyotes. He believed. but wa.
not reasonably certain, that the body wa,
that OF his missing son.
sMALLEY's TRIP
AS the result Of an extensive CORES